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    Sigmatel Sound Issues

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ABOVEALLELSE, Apr 20, 2007.

  1. ABOVEALLELSE

    ABOVEALLELSE Newbie

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    It seems like ever since 4/12/07 I have been having wierd issues with my Sigmatel sound driver that I am unable to fix. I really don't want to do another recovery I just loaded this one back up after having to recover from a nice little virus.

    Symptom: SZ381 comes up no sound, there is no speaker icon in system tray, when i try to use any multimedia it says no audio mixer device detected. I uninstalled the Sigmatel driver and restarted had sound until i opened wmp 10 then it failed again. system restore shows a distribution 2.0 update on the day I believe the issue started but rolling back to the day does not solve it.

    Is anyone else experiencing this or am I alone?


    -ABOVEALLELSE
     
    ABOVEALLELSE, Apr 20, 2007
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  2. snydna

    snydna Newbie

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    did you try to see if you can remove that distribution 2.0 and then reinstalling the driver?

    I had an issue where the windows audio service would not be started and i would get a similar error. You can go to control panel/administartive tools / services and see if the windows audio service is started.
     
    snydna, Apr 20, 2007
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  3. sylonien

    sylonien Notebook Evangelist

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    Just kinda on this subject, I tried to install the latest Sigmatel Sound driver from VAIO

    SigmaTel Audio Driver 6.10.5379.0

    it sounded pretty good, it mentions that if fixes errors like:

    - Playback of MP3/WMA in Media Center results in Media Center's performance becoming very slow
    - When you click "Play" button in Windows Media Center (WMP), it takes a little time before playback actually starts
    - Audio frame drop occurs during playback with WMP
    http://www.vaio-link.com/vu/vu30/info.asp?l=en&ip=STDAUD-01487700-UN.htm&f=STDAUD-01487700-UN.exe

    since I had those problems before, but after installation - no sound came out and my WMP just froze. So I roll-backed the driver. What a disappointment and waste of time. I've got all the latest VAIO updates and Vista updates - so I dont' know what's going on here.

    Any body tried this?
     
    sylonien, Apr 21, 2007
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